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[11 Oct 2009 | No Comment | 726 views]
The software wars shifts to a new front

These are the current fronts in which the software wars are being fought.
But it seems that a new warfront is being fought in the sphere of soft drinks with Bing Soda, Microsoft Soda and Ubuntu Cola

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[10 Apr 2009 | 2 Comments | 875 views]
Write in C. A developer song.

A brilliant song about.. well.. writing in C.
Enjoy!
PS.
Does anyone have the lyrics to this?
Update:
Thanks to tan_ce and Nixxy’s comments below, here are the lyrics!
When I find my code in tons of trouble,
Friends and colleagues come to me,
Speaking words of wisdom:
“Write in C.”
As the deadline fast approaches,
And the bugs are all that I can see,
Somewhere, someone whispers:
“Write in C.”
Write in C, write in C,
Wtite in C, yeah, write in C.
LISP is dead and buried,
Write in C.
I used to write a lot of FORTRAN,
For science it worked flawlessly.
Try using it for graphics!
Write …

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[23 Dec 2008 | 5 Comments | 1,567 views]
Singapore supports Ubuntu!

 

We all know the ubuntu logo looks like: 3 arcs forming a circle. It looks like a Singapore organisation may actually be supportive of Ubuntu:

Oh let’s email them to see if they are using Ubuntu in their workplace. Oh wait, the URL to the site is http://www.fairemployment.sg/main.aspx :s
And running curl -I http://fairemployment.sg confirms the server type:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:17:43 GMT
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
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